Update #16 - Teaser video and a call to arms!

Thank you to Chris Roberts for giving us a shout out in his latest Star Citizen update. The Elite: Dangerous Kickstarter is now sitting at over £810,000 and we have over 16,500 backers.

This is good, but we still have ~£450,000 to go, and just 16 days to do it in – we need your help now and over the Holidays!

We need to spread the word far and wide. We’ll of course be doing that as well, and thank you to those who have already been doing it, but we now need a big push from as many people as possible to try and make sure we hit the Kickstarter total and get to make this game.

Tell everyone you can as you see them over the Holidays; tell your colleagues, tell your friends, tell your family. Everybody, try to recruit 5 fresh pledgers.

If you are on Twitter, tweet about the Kickstarter (include the #EliteDangerous hashtag) and ask your followers to re-tweet.

If you’re on Facebook, update your wall and those of all your friends who’ll be interested.

If you’re on Google +1, publically recommend the project.

If you’re on Linked In, share the news about the project.

If you blog, or are part of any online communities, post about the game.

You get the picture... any way you can spread the word, please do so.

People can learn more about the project, gets links to and pledge via either the Kickstarter campaign or directly via PayPal from our website here:

To help with the push we have a new teaser movie about the great game we want to make:

You can also help by supporting the novels looking to make the writer’s pledge. Each of these is another £4,500 towards the Elite: Dangerous Kickstarter. T James is intending to write a novel called ‘Out of the Darkness’. You can pledge to his book here:

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Greetings Commander,
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Welcome to the Elite Dangerous Newsletter #130.
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This week we take a look at some great content from the community in our Horizons Highlights, bring you important news about upcoming changes and adjustments to The Engineers and give you all the details of our huge Summer sale.
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As always, you can hear the latest news and updates directly from the development team on our Forums, Twitter, Facebook, Community Homepage, and right here in the newsletter every week, and we're always eager to hear your feedback.
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Pick up the Elite Dangerous: Horizons Season Pass today for only £13.39, €16.74, $20.09 or RUB 997,63.
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Fly Safe CMDRs!

Elite Dangerous Newsletter #129 - Friday, 17th June 2016
http://email-elitedangerous.com/3F35-91K2-2433Y32QA1/cr.aspx.
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This week we're showing off some incredible community creations, including a must-see live action short movie, we're telling you about some of the tweaks and changes we've implemented thanks to community feedback, taking a little trip in an Orca with some Elite Dangerous-style space tourism and much more.
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• Horizons Highlights
We’re always impressed by the screenshots and videos our community post on social media and our forums… here’s a collection of a few of our favourites from this week.

Local news articles were added at the Engineers bases to help direct players to locations where they are able to source the materials they need. In addition we increased the amount of materials you can hold from 600 to 1,000 and increased the amount of Data you can hold from 200 to 500 units.

Alongside these changes we also made some adjustments to the requirements to unlock a couple of the Engineers. Specifically, we reduced the required number of rare goods to unlock them down to 50 tonnes. We also adjusted the availability of rare goods in the galaxy slightly, too. States will still change the allocation of rares but the numbers are more favourable than they were.

The development team worked incredibly hard over the recent week’s and are always looking at and reviewing the feedback from the community. There will be an additional point update coming soon which will also include a number of fixes and changes based on feedback from the community. We’ll have some more news on that soon.

See the original post here:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/265277-Serverside-update-and-upcoming-point-update.
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• Tourism - Location, Location, Location
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The graceful Orca will finally get the love and attention it deserves, as passenger gameplay is coming as part of the next major content update to Elite Dangerous: Horizons.
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We'll have much more information on 2.2 in the coming weeks, so keep an eye on our social media channels and our weekly newsletter to find more.
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One aspect of Passenger Gameplay will be Tourism, so we're building a massive database of the best tourist hotspots in the galaxy. There's nobody who knows the galaxy better than our intrepid explorers, so we're asking for a helping hand from our Commanders to make the location database as thorough and complete as possible!
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Executive Producer Michael Brookes has arranged a competition on our forums where you can submit a location to be used in the game. If the location you submit gets used, your CMDR name will be added in-game in connection with the chosen location.
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You can see all of the details, and find out exactly how you can get involved, by visiting the original forum post:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/266046-2-2-Your-Input-Needed-Passenger-Tourist-Destinations.
• EDC Commonwealth Codebreaker Event
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The EDC Commonwealth are arranging a massive code breaking event, where participants will have to answer a series of questions in order to win prizes. See the original post here to find out how you can get involved.
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• GalNet Focus
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• The Danger Zone CQC Livestream
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• HCS Voicepacks - Obsidian
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The guys at HCS voicepack have launched their latest addition to the collection, with YouTuber Obsidian Ant!
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You can watch the trailer for the pack below, made by Obsidian Ant himself... how fitting.
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From the site - "Obsidian - Over a thousand responses including Ai "Jazz" for the Galaxapedia & Constellations."
https://www.youtube.com/watch….
• Reddit AMA Series
• Community Goals Update
• Comms Chatter
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Elite Dangerous Newsletter #129 - Friday, 17th June 2016
http://email-elitedangerous.com/3F35-91K2-2433Y32QA1/cr.aspx.
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Fly Safe CMDRs!

Elite Dangerous Newsletter #128 - Friday, 10th June 2016
http://email-elitedangerous.com/3F35-8T55-7132ZABOD0/cr.aspx.
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• Ship Kits Live On the Frontier Store Now!
Head over to the Frontier Store to pick up our new ship kits for the Sidewinder, Eagle, and Cobra. These kits will give your ship a completely unique look, with hundreds of combinations available to experiment with.
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You can mix and match the pieces on the ship, to get the exact look you want and the pieces will change colour to react to the paint job you’re using. There are more examples of the ship kits in use on the store page..
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• Horizons Highlights: The Engineers
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We’re always impressed by the screenshots and videos our community post on social media and our forums… here’s a collection of a few of our favourites from this week.
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- Ace pilot Isinona returns with his Flight Assist Off Series, adding a new rule to celebrate the launch of 2.1 The Engineers – no insurance rebuys allowed. If he dies, a massive part of his fortune dies with him...
https://www.youtube.com/watch….
- Bolt vanderhuuge posted this stunning screenshot… something you could only ever see in Elite Dangerous: Horizons.
https://imgur.com/a/QRcSY.
- Obsidian Ant continues his journey to the edge of the galaxy, and visits a few planets in “the Desolation Ridge”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch….
• The Dangerous games Update and Stream
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The Dangerous Games Wildcard Community Goals have kicked off with a bang. After a long week of Gold mining the groups have battled it out for points in the first of the three challenges they will face.
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• Powerplay Annual Summary
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CMDR Corrigendum takes a look back at the first year of Powerplay, digging deep into the political struggles of the last 12 months.
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Elite Dangerous Newsletter #128 - Friday, 10th June 2016
http://email-elitedangerous.com/3F35-8T55-7132ZABOD0/cr.aspx.
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Fly Safe CMDRs!

Elite Dangerous Newsletter #127 - Friday, 3rd June 2016
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/259735-Newsletter-127.
Horizons Highlights: The Engineers
The Engineers was launched last week at no additional charge to all those who own the Horizons season pass, and already we’re seeing some beautiful screenshots and videos.
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Plotting a route to Beagle Point just got that little bit easier, with the new bookmarks system. CMDR Gienkov has his route sorted…
http://i.imgur.com/creXfMy.png.
CMDR Klassic found this ‘poor little Condor’ floating alone in space… we can only wonder what happened here.
http://i.imgur.com/PwoGhPs.jpg.
According to CMDR Allerose, the New Huge Weapons are super effective… look at the mess they’ve left behind!
http://i.imgur.com/Y1m8JEc.png.
CMDR Paul Loachman visited Farseer Inc… he took this lovely panoramic screenshot.
http://i.imgur.com/Mr9h5vu.jpg.
Obsidian Ant uploaded this video detailing the FSD upgrades available via the Engineers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch….
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Elite Dangerous: Horizons Commanders on PC and Xbox One will receive further expansions at no extra cost as the season continues. Future gameplay updates will debut for PC and Xbox One simultaneously, bringing new activities and new ways to play on both platforms:
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• Ship-Launched Fighters, allowing larger spacecraft to carry their own short-range fighter craft for attack and defense.
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• Multicrew, allowing teams of Commanders to assume roles aboard the same ship.
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• Commander creation, giving a unique appearance to Commanders’ in-game avatars.
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What’s more, Xbox One Commanders who purchase Horizons before the 30th July will also get access to the Cobra Mk IV in game. This early incentive mirrors our pre order incentive previously offered to PC players. The Cobra Mk IV will be available in selected ship yards if you have access and will require in game credits to purchase.
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Elite Dangerous Newsletter #127 - Friday, 3rd June 2016
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/259735-Newsletter-127.
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Fly Safe CMDRs!

As always, you can hear the latest news and updates directly from the development team on our Forums, Twitter, Facebook, Community Homepage, and right here in the newsletter every week, and we're always eager to hear your feedback.

There was a nebula visible in the second scene of the teaser.... I really hope it is really there so you can fly to it. I hate backdrops in this kind of games. All visible objects should be reachable. Every star in the background should be based to reachable stars in the game... and so on....

Great teaser! That's the way this whole campaign should have started. Never would it have been necessary to literally beg for pledges now with something like this to kick of this kickstarter. But sadly the damage is done.

>>>What about the Paypal ones ? Will the payment be delayed or will you have to refund hundreds or thousands people ?

Frontier have confirmed it'll be refunded. They've not updated the PP page to reflect it; if/when they do, you're right about the need to emphasise KS>PP. Wouldn't hurt to trim back the existing sales pitch and just link back to the ED webpage, which has shaped up nicely.

I'd have considered jumping from 20 to 90 if I also gained alpha and beta access, but to withhold access to testers until we pay more was sheer lunacy. David should backpedal, the goal would have been achieved already.

I agree with many that say there should be something worth the money between 20 and 50. 50 is way too much for me, but i might consider raising to 30 if there was some incentive.

One thing that i don't like about this update is that Michael says it's a "big update".... and then only talks about how the project needs more backers.
The video is nice, but pretty far from being something big.
All in all I'm a bit dissappointed :(

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Like a lot of people, I would be happy to add a few more pounds to my pledge. However going up from the £20 pledge to anything else currently available is really expensive when there isn't much to be gained.

Then I would be more than happy to up my pledge. Those types of add-ons don't add any cost to them as they are digital, and you are basically encouraging people to pledge a little more, but still receiving something extra.

It's not a lot of an increase, but if the bulk of the £20 pledgers upped their pledges we would be a whole lot closer!!

Isn't introducing paypal a dangerous game for this kickstarter project ?
As long as the 1,25M£ objective isn't reached, each pound given throught paypal can be considered as a pound lost to reach the objective.
It would be a shame to finish the crowdfunding campaign with 500k thanks to Paypal, but a KS campaign lost with "only" 1M£ obtained, so meaning "0" overall.